God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
HENRY JAMESTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
More Henry James Quotes
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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